CTD on feat selection

I'm currently running Co8 5.0.3 with the new 4.0 Front end, on Win98SE

I've just gotten my characters to 3rd level, and for some reason when I click the button to do feat selection for my rogue, the game crashes to the desktop. I've gone through the level up process with some of the other characters, but every single time I try to level up my rogue, the game crashes.

Is there a fix for this aside from starting over?

 

If you use the Temple.DLL that comes with Co8 5.0.0, does the game also crash using that version of Temple.DLL when training a rogue?

 

It looks like Win'98SE is the problem...
Maybe there are some instructions in the dll
that '98 can't read through and recognises them
as an error in the file, or sth?

 

That would be my suggestion. I mean, when you get right down to it, Win98 is...well...ancient by computer standards. If you have good enough specs on your computer to be able to run ToEE, then it would be wise to upgrade to at least Windows 2000. NOT Millenium Edition, but Win 2000. Trust me, there's a huge distinction there.

 

Windows 2000 Pro is stable, but Windows XP Pro is stable and responds faster.

 

I don't have Win98 available to test with, so it's a bit hard to get to the bottom of this. The rogue fix per se was one of the earliest things I did IIRC so it's a bit strange the problem never surfaced before. There was no change to that code since then. It might be helpful to test the different dllfix versions downward to see where the problem was originally introduced (like Ted planned, just maybe going lower in the dllfix version if necessary).

It might also help to get the exact error messages with addresses and such of the crash, though that didn't really work last time I tried.

 

Yes, but it also requires much higher computer specs. Plus, assuming they do the legal thing and buy it instead of downloading it, XP Pro is a lot more expensive, to boot.

But, to each his own. :shrug:

 

@ShiningTed: Psst! Use the partition with XP, dude.

 

If it's just a problem of you using the 98 partition because there's more room, then there's this nifty little tool out there called PQMagic. It will let you resize the partition with Windows XP to steal some space from the partition with Windows 98.

 

hmm - Try downloading and installing the SP2 (Full Network version) for your Windows XP.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers

It is a 266 MB download. When downloaded to and run on the same computer, it will temporarily extract about 1 GB of XP install and update files on that computer while installing updates and, then, remove the temporary files when done, clean up after itself. (It replaces every XP file on the computer, unless a XP file has a creation date, not install date, that is post SP2.) It is a very comprehensive update and is 100 percent recommended for all installations of Windows XP that are not SP2 at the time of the original installation of Windows XP. I would also recommend installing Windows Installer 3.1 before installing SP2 for Windows XP.

Note: I have used the SP2 for Windows XP to uncluster many fouled up installations of XP - after removing viruses, XP never being cleaned up, users uninstalling programs by means of deleting program file directories, users thinking files were not important and just deleting files, etc.